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Dec 9, 2024 | 
nationalobserver.com | Chris Hatch |Max Fawcett |Neal Stephenson
You certainly are a well-read bunch! And the most striking thing about your many book recommendations was the breadth and variety of climate novels, short stories, non-fiction and even graphic novels that came pouring in. It was only eight years ago that Amitav Ghosh laid down his gauntlet, challenging writers to think the “unthinkable,” to “make possible the imagining of possibilities,” and tackle The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable.
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Nov 23, 2024 | 
inkl.com | Neal Stephenson
J Studios/DigitalVision/Getty ImagesHow will the internet evolve in the coming decades? Fiction writers have explored some possibilities. In his 2019 novel “Fall,” science fiction author Neal Stephenson imagined a near future in which the internet still exists. But it has become so polluted with misinformation, disinformation, and advertising that it is largely unusable.
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
idahopress.com | Roger Kreuz |Neal Stephenson
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
inkl.com | Neal Stephenson
In his 2019 novel “Fall,” science fiction author Neal Stephenson imagined a near future in which the internet still exists. But it has become so polluted with misinformation, disinformation and advertising that it is largely unusable. Characters in Stephenson’s novel deal with this problem by subscribing to “edit streams” – human-selected news and information that can be considered trustworthy.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
lesen.de | Neal Stephenson |Chester Himes |Ian Rankin |Michael Connelly
The first installment in Neal Stephenson's Bomb Light cycle, Polostan follows the early life of the enigmatic Dawn Rae Bjornberg. Born in the American West to a clan of cowboy anarchists, Dawn is raised in Leningrad after the Russian Revolution by her Russian father, a party line Leninist who re-christens her Aurora. She spends her early years in Russia but then grows up as a teenager in Montana, before being drawn into gun running and revolution in the streets of Washington, D. C.
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Oct 26, 2024 | 
nealstephenson.substack.com | Neal Stephenson
Not long after Cryptonomicon was published I received an email from a reader in Iowa, written more in sadness than in anger, letting me know that Cap’n Crunch was produced not by General Mills, as I had implied in the text of the book, but by Quaker Oats. As an extra little twist of the knife this reader mentioned that as a person from Iowa I should have known better.
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Neal Stephenson |William Morrow
Therein lies the novel's only major problem. It is a fine study of Dawn/Aurora as she comes of age, with plenty of intrigue and beautifully rendered scenes, but it ends up feeling mostly like an extended setup for a bigger spy saga yet to come. Dawn/Aurora's initial tutor in duplicity is her father, the Ukrainian-born Maxim.
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Aug 22, 2024 | 
cosmiclog.com | Alan Boyle |Neal Stephenson
A digital content platform inspired by Seattle science-fiction author Neal Stephenson’s vision of the metaverse is collaborating with Weta Workshop, the special-effects company best known for its work on “The Lord of the Rings” movie trilogy, to create a whole new online territory for virtual worlds.
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Aug 16, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Neal Stephenson |Sally Rooney |Kristin Hannah
An adventurous young woman makes her way into the Soviet Union’s intelligence service in the first volume of Stephenson’s new Bomb Light series. It’s 1933. Bonnie and Clyde are all over the American newspapers, the Soviet Union is casting its mark on the world stage, and scientists are making exciting breakthroughs that are beginning to transform society. A young woman meets an old friend, an engineer named Bob, at a San Francisco diner.
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Jun 15, 2024 | 
beforewegoblog.com | Beth Tabler |Neal Stephenson |Douglas Adams
Two months since the stars fell… Two months since sixty-five thousand alien objects clenched around the Earth like a luminous fist, screaming to the heavens as the atmosphere burned them to ash. Two months since that moment of brief, bright surveillance by agents unknown. Two months of silence, while a world holds its breath.
